• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.543-556
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• 2021

This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence multicultural adolescents' proficiency in their mother's native language, or their immigrant mother's native language. A hierarchical regression analysis was performed on data from the survey answered by 1,028 multicultural adolescents aged 15 years old and whose mothers were from foreign countries for the 6th Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study(MAPS) conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) in 2016. The main results are as follows. First, multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency was generally low and significant differences were observed according to their gender, parents' educational level, household income, and mother's native country. More specifically, a higher proficiency in minority language was found for girls than boys, adolescents with a higher parental educational level, adolescents with a higher income, and adolescents whose mothers were from Japan or China, compared with those from the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam. Second, a significant positive correlation was observed between multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency and 1) foreign culture acceptance, 2) parent's educational support, and 3) the use of the minority language at home. Third, foreign culture acceptance, parents' educational support, and the use of the minority language at home were predictors of multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency. The study is meaningful in that it examined multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency, elucidating their bilingual development, whereas previous studies have only focused on their proficiency in Korean, which is the majority language.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제32권
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• pp.167-179
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• 2013

This paper focuses on a sociologic approach, the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen 1991) and a sociolinguistic field, the language shift (Fishman 1991, Crystal 2000). It describes the theoretical background of language shift and briefly mentions the history of Hungarian language and Romanian language contacts. After presenting language use of the Hungarian minority students and explaining the theory of planned behavior, it turns to apply the theory of planned behavior to the language shift from the view of bilingual speaker(s). This paper wants to propose the application of the theory of planned behavior in language shift and open new perspective in bilingual research.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.179-187
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• 2019

As the globalization process progresses more rapidly and widely, there has been a ever-growing demand for multilingual learning. Compared with the study of Second Language Acquisition, studies on the Third Language and even Multilingual Acquisition have attracted a relatively poor attention. At the same time, considering current educational environments for ethnic colleges and universities, the effects of college English teaching for minority students can be said to have been 'generally poor.' In this situation, when we try to find ways to improve college English studies for minority students most of whom already can speak two languages or even more, it would not be the best idea to keep following the experiences of traditional Second Language Acquisition. It is necessary first to find out whether there are positive or negative effects in acquiring multiple languages, and then to conduct a profound research on L3 (third language and even multilingual) Acquisition in order to employ more efficient teaching methods for multilingual learners. After conducting a Japanese-teaching experiment on two groups of learners with mono-lingual and bilingual backgrounds, it has been found that there is a positive transfer between different languages. In this paper, following the recent research findings on Language teaching for multilingual learners, I try to show with further supports that when it comes to language education for learners with multilingual backgrounds, we should focus on the advantages they may earn in order to conduct more effective language acquisition.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2020

Previous work has shown that men both explain and value the act of explaining more than women, as explaining conveys expertise. However, previous studies are limited to English. We conducted an exploratory study to see if similar patterns are seen amongst Japanese speakers. We examined three registers of Japanese: conversational interviews, simulated speeches, and academic presentations. For each text, we calculated two measures: lexical density and the percentage of the text written in kanji. Both are indicators of expository language. Men produced significantly higher scores for the interviews and speeches. However, the results for the presentations depend on age and academic field. In fields in which women are the minority, women produce higher scores. In the field in which men are the minority, younger men produced higher scores but older men produced lower scores than women of the same age. Our results show that in academic contexts, the explainers are not necessarily men but rather the gender minority. We argue that such speakers are under social pressure to present themselves as experts. These results show that the generalization that men tend to explain more than women does not always hold true, and we urge more academic work on expository language.

• 수완나부미
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.161-176
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• 2016

This paper discusses how the concept of "bilingualism" can be used to reflect changes within Bruneian society since the 1940's. It argues that within the context of a linguistically diverse population, the various indigenous groups of Brunei used to speak their own traditional languages, but eventually learned to speak the language of the politically dominant Malays. The Malay language became a necessary additional language, hence leading to a population which could speak their own languages, alongside the Malay language. But the rise of schools teaching in English in the 1970's began to sow seeds of a different kind of bilingualism, encouraged by language shift processes among ethnic minority groups.

• 한국학교수학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.389-409
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• 2009

최근 이주민 100만인 시대의 도래라는 사회변화로 인해 우리 주위에 다문화, 다언어, 저소득층에서 오는 환경적 다양성을 지닌 학생들이 급증해가는 추세이다. 본 연구는 이들 대상으로 그 동안 이뤄진 국내외 연구들을 분석하여 그 기초(framework)를 마련하는 문헌고찰이다. 이들에 대한 관심은 아직 시작단계에 불과하여 다양성의 배경을 지닌 학생을 위한 수학교육 연구로써 국내의 선행연구는 찾아보기 어려울지라도 이와 관련성 있는 소수의 국내연구와 이민자 사회로써 오랜 역사를 지닌 외국에서 이루어진 선행 연구들을 살펴보는 것은 앞으로 이들을 위한 학습자료 개발과 연구 등에 기초를 제공한다. 따라서 이들 학생들의 수학 학습현장에서 시대적 흐름은 무엇인지, 이들을 위해 그간 어떤 지원이 이루어졌는지, 그리고 이들에게 필요한 구체적인 수학교수학습의 실제는 무엇인지를 파악하여 수학 교사를 포함한 수학교육자와 학교 행정가들에게 주는 시사점을 얻고자하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.204-211
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• 2015

이 연구는 사회적기업이 소수자 보호정책으로 어떠한 의미를 가지는가에 대해 본질적으로 접근하였다. 특히, 소수자정책에 많은 영향을 미치는 북한이탈주민들과 사회적기업과의 관계를 중심으로 논의하였다. 연구결과를 요약해 보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 북한이탈주민들이 대한민국 사회에 적응하는데 가장 큰 어려움은 경제활동, 사회적 이질감인데, 사회적기업은 놓은 효과성을 가진 정책이라는 점을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 기존의 사회적기업이 지나치게 중앙정부 위주로 진행되어져 창의와 발전이 결여된 지원 모형이였다는 점이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 민관협동형 정책모형으로 변화해야 한다는 교훈을 얻을 수 있었다. 셋째, 사회적기업은 단순한 경제활동 수준을 넘어, 사회, 문화, 생활, 언어 등의 사회교육의 순기능을 가지고 있으므로 북한이탈주민들의 사회적기업 참여를 일정부문 의무화해야 한다는 교훈을 얻을 수 있었다. 이러한 연구결과는 소수자정책으로써 북한이탈주민과 사회적기업의 관계를 설명하는데 이론적으로 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe married female migrants' experiences of health care services and to help nursing researchers, nursing educators, and clinical nurses understand married female migrants' experiences. Method: A conventional content analysis method was utilized. Individual in-depth interviews with 15 married female migrants were conducted. Subject recruitment was performed at a district in Seoul. Results: Ten categories were induced: language barrier, financial burden, insufficient time with a physician, complexity of utilization process, lack of support from peer group, health care providers' discrimination, anxiety regarding lack of information about children's health, health care providers' concerns and efforts to minimize the language barrier, family support, and advanced health care service environment. Conclusion: This study provides basic knowledge regarding married female migrants' experiences related to health care services. Future research should designate and utilize valid instruments to measure the positive and negative experiences and to explore strategies to strengthen the positive features while eliminating the negative ones. Finally, the Korean nursing education curriculum should include cultural competence and knowledge about an ethnic minority's right to health service utilization.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.113-124
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• 2005

Information sources about Mongolian pigtail of 13-14C are relatively rich. But it was difficult to estimate the shape of the pigtail in detail with the descriptions in historical writing or travel books only, and paintings were neither enough to observe the beautiful shape of the pigtail closely on the whole because the portrayed characters were always wearing their hats. However, the authors could trace the detailed shape of the pigtail of 13-14C through close investigation into Mongolian stone statue of the period. In conclusion, the authors performed a comparative study by historically comparing the historical writings, archeological materials, ethnological materials and figurative arts featuring medieval Mongolian pigtail. And the authors paid careful attention to the meaning of those materials to the hairdo history. Historically nothern minority races have become assimilated with surrounding races in language, culture and customs through long economical and cultural exchange, and today their national traits gradually fade away by globalization. But each minority race still stands independently and maintain its own traditional culture. only recently began the study by Korean researchers on Mongolian pigtail, and there is still much to be discussed in ethnological issues such as racial pedigree.

• 인문언어
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• 제6권
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• pp.109-145
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• 2004

Social scientists in North America, especially anthropologists, folklorists and linguists, who focus on the study language use and its connection to society, use a variety of labels to describe what they do. Among the best known are 'anthropological linguistics' , 'linguistic anthropology', and 'sociolinguistics'. All of these labels imply that their focus is on the study of language usage in society and culture for their teaching, research and publications. In this paper I am examining the intellectual issues and history that underlie the differences in the labels. The differences and similarities that characterize them are discussed. The author proposes 'linguistic anthropology' as the most useful disciplinary terminology if the study of language combined with culture is to be 'community-centric' and not only 'profession-centric' . He encourages a renewed focus on working with communities. Also, a need to find ways to engage Indigenous members of minority language communities more actively should be a primary goal in the process of 'academic' language work. This is important due to the loss rapid extinction of the many of the world's languages. The author points out that it does matter what we call the work we do, as a label may carry a message of meaning, intent and focus.